Monday, July 1, 2013

Dr Swamy writes another letter to PM on Aircel -Maxis deal

Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy has raised the Aircel-Maxis deal once again and asked Mr Man Mohan Singh to call for immediate review of the deal .

This morning ,in a letter to PM Dr Swamy reminded PM of his earlier letter on the topic ( please see this blog for full text of earlier letter) and questioned the role of Finance Minister Mr P.Chidambaram .

Full text of the letter is here :

July 1, 2013.

Dr. Manmohan Singh,

Prime Minister of India,

South Block,

New Delhi.

Dear Prime Minister:

Please refer to my earlier letter to
you dated April 18, 2013 regarding the Aircel-Maxis deal and the CBI’s Supreme
Court-monitered-investigation into the same. In my Interlocutory Application No. 36
in the matter, the Supreme Court had directed the CBI to investigate the issues
I had raised therein, which included the fraudulent and bogus clearance of the
deal by the FIPB allegedly claimed as on March 7, 2006 {when Mr. P. Chidambaram
was Finance Minister}. Hence
his role in the matter would automatically come under the scanner of the CBI.

In this letter I bring to your notice
information I have recently received. A
Secret Note No. 51/1/2007-JIC(CS) had been prepared by the Joint Intelligence
Committee of your Government based on inputs from all the main central
Intelligence agencies submitted. In the said Secret Note it is stated Saudi Arabia’s Saudi
Telecom had as far back as 2007 acquired 25% of the Maxis equity by paying $3
billion then. Recent
information I have received from Malaysia reveal that Saudi Telecom will
purchase additional equity to raise its share to 35%. There is also news that France was
expecting its telecom company to purchase an additional 20%. In other words, Maxis would cease to
be a Malaysian company.

Given Saudi Arabia’s Wahabi propensity
to finance Islamic fundamentalist forces in India and Bangla Desh, JIC had
rightly wondered as far back as 2007 whether it is in India’s national security
interests that India should provide access to such a vital area as telecom
sector, especially when Saudi Telecom will through Maxis has licences for
sensitive circles such in Northeast
India, hit by Islamic infiltration from Bangla Desh.

What is all the more shocking is that
Mr. Chidambaram had failed to call for security clearance for the Aircel Maxis
or inform the FIPB of the Saudi Telecom angle but instead fraudulently gave a
bogus contrived FIPB clearance to the deal.

As Prime Minister therefore, you must
call for a review of the Aircel Maxis deal immediately and instruct the
CBI to investigate the matter. Otherwise,
I shall have to approach the Supreme Court by way of another Interlocutory
Application.